Who are you?
This could be a straight forward question at first glance but a scientific or philosophical at may prove hard to answer. what we've believed is that we can only be 'one person' and changing to a different person is considered 'pretense. But is it? Lets find out.
We repeatedly hear this phrases; "just be yourself! Stop trying to be a different person." This statement is said to us when we try to metamorphosize. Lets take an example to justify the fact that you can be different people in different environments. Our character in terms of speech and mannerism at home, school or your religious institution (mosque, temple or church)are different.
How you speak and act in the presence of your parents is different to how you talk and act to your friends. How you interact with your professor is different to how you interact with your pastor or imam, though both of them have authority over you. You attain different personas with all this people or in all this different environments.
So, the question persists, WHO ARE YOU? or rather who is the real you?
There are different styles of speeches and mannerisms that you acquire for in various environments as you socialize. Sam Harris says, "there is no reason to worry about the resulting contradictions in your world view at different occasions as you socialize"
Are you all these people or personas you acquire for different social scenarios or is there a 'real you' that defines who you really? what aspect of the environment really defines who you are? A question to ponder.
who are or who we become is highly if not fully determined by the environment we are in or breed in change that and you get a totally different person. this even impacts our ideologies on politics and even religion. Do we have 9/11 if Osama was born somewhere in Rome, Italy? Does the holocaust if Hitler was born in 2022?
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